All artists stand on the shoulders of other artists. Your point of view is the opposite of reality. Your point of view would stifle artists. Say goodbye to Shakespeare, first off. As for the mention of Picasso, why are you mentioning that admitted fraud as an artist. He made crap to sell to overeducated, under artistic morons to make themselves seem 'hip'. As the the Beethoven's 5th, that might make it pretty nifty. I know Laibach's symphonic industrial version of Jesus Christ Superstar is one of my favorite songs. It provides a different perspective on the same object... something you couldn't easily do with this crappy law in place.
What do you call the options of working when you don't wish to and jail time? I call it slavery. Indentured servitude is wrong, and should not be allowed. Your fundamental rights should be protected, and you should not be able to sign your rights away. Maybe the teachers should all quit and demand to get rehired at the pay they want instead?:P
I heard this same report. It came off as a bloody ad for Intel, for the most part. There was very little detail about IBM and AMD there. Does anyone have details here? I'd love to see Intel slammed for this. Give credit where it is due.
Love to see this tech used in new Sparc and PPC chips as well.:)
IQ is the result of both genetics and enviornment. Malnourished people won't have the building blocks needed to build a body to the potential of their genetics, the more malnourished the person the more this is true. Take two babies, one with high IQ potential in their genes, one without, and have both be breast fed, then fed healthy diets as they grow, and the one with the high IQ potential in their genes will have a higher IQ. And they will both have higher IQs than someone who was nearly starved since birth.
Genetics is only one of many factors, but it's an important one.
station wagons and hatchbacks are definitely _not?_ SUVs (steroid using vehicles, suck UVs, status upgrade vehicles... take your pick). They have a definite place on the road, while SUVs do not.
Sun's new Santa Clara campus is built on the sight of an old insane asylum, and a few of the building including the clock tower are still original ones from that time. Around Sun asylum there is an unmarked graveyard of inmates who died while in the care of the asylum Nobody knows quite where it is.
Security walking the halls have reported strange sounds at night while walking the halls. People have reported hearing sounds while entering the bathroom, but nobody was in there. Showers have been mysteriously turned on, but nobody was using them at the time. In one building a fire alarm sets itself off every few months, without anyone pulling the alarm or any fires found.
Sun agreed to turn the surrounding area into a park for the city, so people can come out to Sun asylum and visit our local insane ghosts. You can see some of the old medical tools used on the inmates now, on display in the auditorium.
How many other major companies can claim to be on an old asylum and graveyard site?
It's called using a lab. Use the general locked down machine for their basic buisiness needs, and remotely access the lab machines to do their development work on. Then the IT guys can support the day to day machines, and the lab guys (either the developers themselves, on a 'you broke it you fix it' basis, or by people hired for the task) can take care of those machines.
Also, think how much better the software would be if developers experienced first hand how their software breaks a system! They would be forced to be a lot more careful in the development of their code.
As a general rule, you should have one CPU for about 20 users on the system at that time. Say you are handling
200 users at once, then you would want a 10x CPU
Sunray server.
As for the dual being a screamer, Sun doesn't see
much of a benefit from extra CPUs until you start getting
above 4 processors. They are designed to chug along
at a good fast rate, and keep that rate going under high
load, not to scream along as fast as possible, then crash to a halt under high load.
Ok, but how does your $1300 dollar iBook compare to a $1000 IBM ThinkPad? And you get a much better pointer too!;)
I still want an OS X box. If only IBM would port their laptops to the Mac hardware! Makes about as much sense as asking Apple to port their OS to x86, right?
Intel did not get where it is because it 'did things right'. It got where it is because IBM already had a licence with them for other products, so decided it would be cheapest to extend that licence when they looked for what to use for their new PC systems. Intel got a good foot in the door, and has never been put down by a better CPU maker.
Imagine where we would be hardware wise if they had gone with Motorola instead...
What do you mean 'forced to use'? Just because it is not shipped by default does not mean you can't change what you use. Defaults are meant to be changed.;)
As much as I hate popups like that, government regulation of such is even worse. Also, what can they do about overseas sites? Are they going to try and put it under the same controls as overseas TV broadcasts?
The proper way to fix this is to fix the browsers so they don't allow this to happen.
There is a very simple answer to this problem. The humans were wrong. They _think_ the robots are using them for energy, but they are not. The robots are keeping them alive because their programming won't allow them to kill off the human species. The AIs first tried to create a 'perfect' world for people. They thought they were doing good for them. That failed, so they did what they considered second best for them.
This not only fixes that huge plot hole, but it adds a good amount of complexity and depth to the plot.
It'd be nice if AMD's loss could be Transmeta's gain. Loss of the highest power using x86 CPU with the gain of the lowest power using one would be a good thing for us poor souls in blackout prone California. Too bad people are still staying behind that lumbering behemoth that is Intel, instead.
Yes, there are drawbacks. But you all but can have an HA cluster in that one box. You can have everything except the backplane be redundant. Seperate power, ethernet, disks, CPU, memory, etc. It is not _quite_ as HA as properly seperating it into two seperate boxes, but it is pretty darn close. Properly put together, this would be more HA than many clusters with seperate boxes on each node of the cluster.
Not that I recommend that way of doing it, but it can be done. Of course, a proper HA cluster of these with one seperate cabinet for each node would be the best.:)
All the Sun Fire models (15k, 6800, 4810, 4800, and 3800) are based on the E10k technology. They are basically the next generation of the E10k. Now just wait and see what Sun puts out for it's _really_ high end server.;)
Yes, memory can be partitioned off dynamically. As can hard drives, ethernet ports, SCSI controllers, etc. Pretty much everything in this puppy is dynamically partitioned.
You can have each CPU board running a seperate OS, attatched to a seperate set of devices such as hard drives, ethernet, etc. In this case, more CPUs are more power. But if you are running them as one OS instance, yes, it might get a bit silly, at that level. It depends on what you're doing with it.
These can be either. It depends on how you configure it. And the fun this is, you can reconfigure it on the fly. You want a cluster in a box? You got it. You want 2 seperate instances of Solaris running, each using 1/3rd the resources of this box, while you pull out the hardware on the rest of the box for maintenance? You got it. This thing is _configurable_. You can hot swap everything except the backplane, pretty much. It's _sweet_.
It has to do with how many CPUs fit on a board, and how many boards fit into the box. Get a bigger box, and that architecture can theoretically handle 1024 processors.:)
I would love to have two seperate crusoe chip boxes for this. One a bridged firewall box, loaded with emBSD, the other a larger box like this one, which is only sold in Japan: NEC CS56. They should be seperate to allow the firewall to be bridged and never directly accessable through the network, while the NAT box is seperate from that. Both would be very low power, as well. I don't trust blackbox firewalls.
I currently use an old system thrown together as a NAT+firewall box. I don't like this setup, and it uses a lot of power compared to what it should, for the service it gives. I've also looked at Sun's netra x1's as a good NAT box. It doesn't use too much power, considering.
Yeah, but it has that *horrible* touchpad as a pointer. Some people love them, but I hate them.
IBM is one of the only laptop makers that I know of that makes a _proper_ laptop mouse. It has that little nub, and _three_ buttons!:)
Of course for some people it doesn't matter, and some people love the touchpads.
I'd kill^H^H^H^Hmaim for a TiBook with a Thinkpad style of mouse.:)
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All artists stand on the shoulders of other artists. Your point of view is the opposite of reality. Your point of view would stifle artists. Say goodbye to Shakespeare, first off. As for the mention of Picasso, why are you mentioning that admitted fraud as an artist. He made crap to sell to overeducated, under artistic morons to make themselves seem 'hip'. As the the Beethoven's 5th, that might make it pretty nifty. I know Laibach's symphonic industrial version of Jesus Christ Superstar is one of my favorite songs. It provides a different perspective on the same object... something you couldn't easily do with this crappy law in place.
What do you call the options of working when you don't wish to and jail time? I call it slavery. Indentured servitude is wrong, and should not be allowed. Your fundamental rights should be protected, and you should not be able to sign your rights away. Maybe the teachers should all quit and demand to get rehired at the pay they want instead? :P
I heard this same report. It came off as a bloody ad for Intel, for the most part. There was very little detail about IBM and AMD there. Does anyone have details here? I'd love to see Intel slammed for this. Give credit where it is due.
:)
Love to see this tech used in new Sparc and PPC chips as well.
IQ is the result of both genetics and enviornment. Malnourished people won't have the building blocks needed to build a body to the potential of their genetics, the more malnourished the person the more this is true. Take two babies, one with high IQ potential in their genes, one without, and have both be breast fed, then fed healthy diets as they grow, and the one with the high IQ potential in their genes will have a higher IQ. And they will both have higher IQs than someone who was nearly starved since birth.
Genetics is only one of many factors, but it's an important one.
station wagons and hatchbacks are definitely _not?_ SUVs (steroid using vehicles, suck UVs, status upgrade vehicles... take your pick). They have a definite place on the road, while SUVs do not.
Sun's new Santa Clara campus is built on the sight of an old insane asylum, and a few of the building including the clock tower are still original ones from that time. Around Sun asylum there is an unmarked graveyard of inmates who died while in the care of the asylum Nobody knows quite where it is.
Security walking the halls have reported strange sounds at night while walking the halls. People have reported hearing sounds while entering the bathroom, but nobody was in there. Showers have been mysteriously turned on, but nobody was using them at the time. In one building a fire alarm sets itself off every few months, without anyone pulling the alarm or any fires found.
Sun agreed to turn the surrounding area into a park for the city, so people can come out to Sun asylum and visit our local insane ghosts. You can see some of the old medical tools used on the inmates now, on display in the auditorium.
How many other major companies can claim to be on an old asylum and graveyard site?
It's called using a lab. Use the general locked down machine for their basic buisiness needs, and remotely access the lab machines to do their development work on. Then the IT guys can support the day to day machines, and the lab guys (either the developers themselves, on a 'you broke it you fix it' basis, or by people hired for the task) can take care of those machines.
Also, think how much better the software would be if developers experienced first hand how their software breaks a system! They would be forced to be a lot more careful in the development of their code.
As a general rule, you should have one CPU for about 20 users on the system at that time. Say you are handling
200 users at once, then you would want a 10x CPU
Sunray server.
As for the dual being a screamer, Sun doesn't see
much of a benefit from extra CPUs until you start getting
above 4 processors. They are designed to chug along
at a good fast rate, and keep that rate going under high
load, not to scream along as fast as possible, then crash to a halt under high load.
Ok, but how does your $1300 dollar iBook compare to a $1000 IBM ThinkPad? And you get a much better pointer too! ;)
I still want an OS X box. If only IBM would port their laptops to the Mac hardware! Makes about as much sense as asking Apple to port their OS to x86, right?
Intel did not get where it is because it 'did things right'. It got where it is because IBM already had a licence with them for other products, so decided it would be cheapest to extend that licence when they looked for what to use for their new PC systems. Intel got a good foot in the door, and has never been put down by a better CPU maker.
Imagine where we would be hardware wise if they had gone with Motorola instead...
It's nice to see a new release of that OS out. Now if only they would add a decent editor.
;)
(yes, I know about the vi modes. I said a _decent_ editor!
How about a touchpad gripe instead? ;)
:)
If only tiBooks had the little nub mouse instead! I could live with the one button monstrostity if only they didn't use the awful touchpad.
(hey, we all need something to bitch about, right?
What do you mean 'forced to use'? Just because it is not shipped by default does not mean you can't change what you use. Defaults are meant to be changed. ;)
As much as I hate popups like that, government regulation of such is even worse. Also, what can they do about overseas sites? Are they going to try and put it under the same controls as overseas TV broadcasts?
The proper way to fix this is to fix the browsers so they don't allow this to happen.
FCC, stay the hell out of the net.
There is a very simple answer to this problem. The humans were wrong. They _think_ the robots are using them for energy, but they are not. The robots are keeping them alive because their programming won't allow them to kill off the human species. The AIs first tried to create a 'perfect' world for people. They thought they were doing good for them. That failed, so they did what they considered second best for them.
This not only fixes that huge plot hole, but it adds a good amount of complexity and depth to the plot.
It'd be nice if AMD's loss could be Transmeta's gain. Loss of the highest power using x86 CPU with the gain of the lowest power using one would be a good thing for us poor souls in blackout prone California. Too bad people are still staying behind that lumbering behemoth that is Intel, instead.
Yes, there are drawbacks. But you all but can have an HA cluster in that one box. You can have everything except the backplane be redundant. Seperate power, ethernet, disks, CPU, memory, etc. It is not _quite_ as HA as properly seperating it into two seperate boxes, but it is pretty darn close. Properly put together, this would be more HA than many clusters with seperate boxes on each node of the cluster.
:)
Not that I recommend that way of doing it, but it can be done. Of course, a proper HA cluster of these with one seperate cabinet for each node would be the best.
All the Sun Fire models (15k, 6800, 4810, 4800, and 3800) are based on the E10k technology. They are basically the next generation of the E10k. Now just wait and see what Sun puts out for it's _really_ high end server. ;)
Yes, memory can be partitioned off dynamically. As can hard drives, ethernet ports, SCSI controllers, etc. Pretty much everything in this puppy is dynamically partitioned.
You can have each CPU board running a seperate OS, attatched to a seperate set of devices such as hard drives, ethernet, etc. In this case, more CPUs are more power. But if you are running them as one OS instance, yes, it might get a bit silly, at that level. It depends on what you're doing with it.
These can be either. It depends on how you configure it. And the fun this is, you can reconfigure it on the fly. You want a cluster in a box? You got it. You want 2 seperate instances of Solaris running, each using 1/3rd the resources of this box, while you pull out the hardware on the rest of the box for maintenance? You got it. This thing is _configurable_. You can hot swap everything except the backplane, pretty much. It's _sweet_.
It has to do with how many CPUs fit on a board, and how many boards fit into the box. Get a bigger box, and that architecture can theoretically handle 1024 processors. :)
These are the types of systems I would _really_ like to have.
Low powered crusoe systems would rock, for everything I do at home.
I currently use an old system thrown together as a NAT+firewall box. I don't like this setup, and it uses a lot of power compared to what it should, for the service it gives. I've also looked at Sun's netra x1's as a good NAT box. It doesn't use too much power, considering.
Yeah, but it has that *horrible* touchpad as a pointer. Some people love them, but I hate them. :)
:)
IBM is one of the only laptop makers that I know of that makes a _proper_ laptop mouse. It has that little nub, and _three_ buttons!
Of course for some people it doesn't matter, and some people love the touchpads.
I'd kill^H^H^H^Hmaim for a TiBook with a Thinkpad style of mouse.